Overview

"Cosmotheism retrieves the importance of a cosmic approach to reality through its revival of the heliocentric creed championed by Copernicus, Bruno and Kepler, through its critiques of historical patterns of politics and technology, and through its sponsorship of emancipatory thinkers, artists, ""psychonauts,"" and cosmologists."

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Author:   Josef Chytry
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.749kg
ISBN:  

9781433176371

ISBN 10:   1433176378
Pages:   468
Publication Date:   28 September 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Enchantment – Enchantment of the World (Verzauberung) I: Copernicus and Bruno – Enchantment of the World (Verzauberung) II: Kepler – Disenchantment of the World (Entzauberung) I: Galileo and Descartes – Disenchantment of the World (Entzauberung) II: Newton – Commonwealth – From Toleration to Partition (I): The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth – From Partition to Extermination (II): Post-Commonwealth – Technicity – Ge-stell I: The ""History"" of Technicity as Accelerative TechnoScience – Ge-stell II: The ""History"" of Technicity as Accelerative Political Economy – Seeking – Rousseau and Nietzsche as Seekers – A Yank at Oxford – Homer and Hardware – Spirit – Between Aistheterion and Artistdom (""Art"") – From Castalia to Maui Wowie (""Religion"") – From Hellenism to Cosmotheism (""Philosophy"") - Appendix: Five Book Reviews – Eugene Lunn, Marxism and Modernism (1982) – Anson Rabinbach, In the Shadow of Catastrophe (1997) – Suzanne Marchand, Down from Olympus (1996) – Jacques Derrida, Athens, Still Remains (2010) – Juliane Rebentisch, Aesthetics of Installation Art (2012) – Index."

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Josef Chytry is Senior Adjunct Professor in Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and Founding Managing Editor of the Oxford journal Industrial and Corporate Change at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Chytry also regularly teaches philosophy in Stanford University Continuing Studies. Chytry has received an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral Fellowship in Philosophy at the University of Tübingen. He was awarded a D.Phil. in Politics and History of Ideas at the University of Oxford, a Master of International Affairs at Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs with Special Honors at the George Washington University. Chytry’s prior publications include Mountain of Paradise (2013), Unis vers Cythère (2009), and Cytherica (2005). On several occasions Chytry has been listed in Who’s Who in America and has been an Honored Instructor at the University of California Extension Program.

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